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Portal:Current events/2019 July 18

Armed conflict and attacks

• War in Afghanistan
  • 12 were killed and over 80 injured by two car bombs at a gate outside police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
• A suicide bombing kills two in northern Sinai after four bodies were found decapitated. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Iran–United Arab Emirates relations
  • Iran confirms it has seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker owned by the United Arab Emirates, and its 12 crews members, in the Persian Gulf last week. The tanker is being held at Qeshm Island, and is accused by Iran of smuggling oil. (USA Today)

Law and crime

• Kyoto Animation massacre
  • A 41-year-old man sets fire to the main offices of Kyoto Animation, a Japanese animation studio. At least 33 people are confirmed dead and 36 injured. (The Guardian)

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Portal:Current events/2019 July 17

Disasters and accidents

• 2018–19 Kivu Ebola epidemic
  • The World Health Organisation declares the most recent Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. (The Guardian)
• A national emergency is declared in the Philippines after more than 100,000 people contract dengue fever. (Fox News)

International relations

• Turkey–United States relations
  • The United States removes NATO ally Turkey from the Joint Strike Fighter program, following the country's acquisition of the Russian S-400 missile system. Turkey had planned to buy 100 F-35 Lightning II jets. (BBC)

Law and crime

• AMIA bombing
  • At request of Israel and the United States, Argentina officially declares Hezbollah a terrorist organization, freezing assets and expelling all members of the organization from the country. It also holds it responsible for the 1994 attack against AMIA. (Clarín) (Perfil) (TN)
• Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is sentenced to life in prison plus thirty years, and is ordered to forfeit US$12.6 billion. He accused the U.S. government of "torture and corruption" during his sentencing hearing in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York. He will likely be sent to ADX Florence in Colorado to serve his sentence. (CNBC)
• Pakistan arrests Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has been blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that left more than 160 people dead. (CBS News)
• A shooting in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, leaves two dead, including a Turkish diplomat. (DW)

Politics and elections

• President-elect of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen resigns from her position as Federal Minister of Defence of Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel appoints Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of the ruling CDU, as her successor. (Deutsche Welle)
• 2018–19 Sudanese protests
  • Representatives of Sudan's military and the civil opposition sign the first of two parts of a power-sharing deal which is supposed to last until free elections in 2022. (DW)
• Efforts to impeach Donald Trump
  • The U.S. House of Representatives votes 332–95 to defeat an impeachment measure against U.S. President Donald Trump. It is the first time a formal vote on impeachment against Trump has taken place. (CNN)

Science and technology

• Astronomers rule out the chances of ~30-meter asteroid 's impacting Earth in September 2019 by eliminating the possibility of its passing through an area where it would have to be if it were on an impacting orbit. Prior to this, the asteroid had been given a one-in-7,000 chance of impacting Earth. (phys.org)

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Portal:Current events/2019 July 16

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian Civil War
  • Syrian government airstrikes targeting residential areas in the towns of Jisr al-Shughur, Khan Shaykhun, Maar Shoreen, Hantoteen and Ain Al Bardeh in Idlib province, kill at least nine civilians and injure 14 others. (AA)

Business and economy

• Nate Sutton, associate general counsel of Amazon, in testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, denies that the company uses individual data to compete unfairly with smaller sellers using its third-party platform. (Seeking Alpha)

Law and crime

• Odebrecht case
  • Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo is arrested in the United States following an extradition request. (US News)
• American musician R. Kelly pleads not guilty to federal sex-assault charges and is denied bail. (NBC News)

Politics and elections

• The European Parliament elects Ursula von der Leyen of Germany as the new President of the European Commission. Succeeding Jean-Claude Juncker, she will be sworn in on 1 November 2019. She is the first woman to be elected to this office in EU history. (BBC)
• Christine Lagarde announces that she will step down as managing director of the International Monetary Fund on 12 September 2019. (BBC)
• Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló says that he will remain in office despite protests. (CBS News)

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Portal:Current events/2019 July 15

Law and crime

• A police raid on a neo-Nazi group in northern Italy results in the arrest of three people. Sophisticated weaponry, including a Matra Super 530F air-to-air missile, were seized during the operation. (BBC)

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Portal:Current events/2019 July 14

Disasters and accidents

• A GippsAero GA8 Airvan sky diving operation plane crashes on an island outside Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine people onboard. (The Guardian)

International relations

• Argentina–Brazil relations
  • Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro renews his support for the re-election of Argentine President Mauricio Macri. "We're brothers, and I want prosperity for our nations", he concludes in an interview. (Clarín)

Science and technology

• The European Union's Galileo satellite navigation system suffers a major outage due to a "technical incident related to its ground infrastructure", taking all active Galileo satellites offline. (BBC)

Sports

• 2019 Wimbledon Championships
  • In the men's singles final match, Serbian Novak Djokovic beats Swiss Roger Federer in five sets for his 16th Grand Slam title win in a match that lasted four hours and 56 minutes. It was the longest Wimbledon final of all time, and also the first men's singles final in any of the four Grand Slam events that went to a fifth-set tiebreaker. (Wimbledon) (ESPN)
• 2019 Cricket World Cup
  • England beats New Zealand in the 2019 Cricket World Cup Final on total boundaries after both regulation play and a super over end in a tie. (ESPN)

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Portal:Current events/2019 July 13

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in Afghanistan
  • Taliban gunmen storm a hotel in Badghis Province, killing four soldiers and two civilians. Three of the five gunmen are killed and two are arrested. (RFE/RadioLiberty)
  • A U.S. soldier is also killed in a separate bombing in Wardak Province. (Al Jazeera)
• Terrorism in the United States
  • Four policemen kill a suspect attempting to attack an ICE immigrant detention center in Tacoma, Washington. The perpetrator was armed with a rifle and incendiary devices, and had left a three-page manifesto advocating political violence (BBC) (Heavy)

Disasters and accidents

• Manhattan blackout
  • A blackout in New York City affects 42,000 people near Times Square. (CNN)
• Monsoon of South Asia
  • Three days of heavy rain in Nepal trigger floods and landslides resulting in at least 67 deaths. India was also affected by heavy floods, resulting in the death of 34 people, while 29 others died in Bangladesh. (BBC)
• Tropical Storm Barry increases to 121 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour), becoming the first hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season.

Politics and elections

• U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says the conditions under which asylum seekers are being held in facilities along the U.S. border with Mexico are unacceptable, after visiting two federal detention centers in Texas, remaining the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to say so. He calls upon the U.S. Congress to act. (CNN)

Sports

• 2019 Wimbledon Championships
  • Simona Halep defeats Serena Williams (6–2, 6–2) to win the 2019 Wimbledon women's singles championship, her first Wimbledon victory and her second Grand Slam singles title. Williams was attempting to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles. (The Guardian)

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Portal:Current events/2019 July 12

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Asasey Hotel attack
  • A car bomb and a gun attack kill at least 26, including two prominent journalists and nine foreigners, in Kismayo, Somalia. (BBC)
• War in Afghanistan
  • A suicide bomber kills nine people and injures 40 others at a wedding in the Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. The bomber is believed to be a minor. (BBC) (Reuters)
• 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
  • The Venezuelan government arrests two members of disputed Interim President Juan Guaidó's personal security. The government claims that the pair were trying to sell weapons stolen from the national army and organising the failed coup attempt on 30 April. The opposition denies the weapons charges. (Reuters)

International relations

• Russia–Turkey relations
  • Turkey receives its first shipment of the S-400 missile system from Russia, defying U.S. and NATO calls to cancel the deal. (BBC)

Law and crime

• Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal
  • Oulu District Court hands down the last sentences concerning the cases involving eight foreign-born men who abused the same girl victim. (Yle)

Politics and elections

• U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announces his resignation from office amid growing public criticism over his past role in securing a 2008 plea deal for former financier Jeffrey Epstein, after Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors. He is to be replaced by Acting Secretary Patrick Pizzella effective July 19. (NBC News)